Planting and growing things offers a lot more than fresh vegetables and flowers. Working in a cozy space can make you delighted, help you stay fit, and broaden your horizons — and that’s just for starters.
Strong shoulder muscles and flexible hands are essential for everyday tasks like opening jars, carrying packages and picking up bags of garbage. Gardening works as an effective way to exercise them from pulling weeds and moving pots to carrying garbage and pushing lawnmowers. With time going by, you will find doing some daily tasks related to shoulders and hands easier than before.
It’s a fun workout.
It’s wonderful to get out in the garden on a beautiful day to give it a tidy. But if you find the idea of pottering around in a garden a bit dull, knowing it’s doing you good physically might make it more entertaining. Planting seeds, pulling up weeds, carrying bags of mulch (覆盖物), moving pots, pushing a lawnmower.
It reduces your risk of heart disease.
It boosts your immune (免疫) system.
Having dirt under your fingernails may be a sign of untidiness, but scientists say it could also be a mark of good health. Thanks to beneficial things found in soil, gardening may improve your immune system.
| A．It sharpens mind. |
| B．It increases strength and flexibility. |
| C．If you insist on doing this, there are more advantages. |
| D．Therefore, you will get sick less and fight off infections easier. |
| E．These entertaining activities well replace traditional exercises. |
| F．Scientists found that planting and caring seeds relieve people’s stress. |
| G．Without involving heart-related activities, it still provides heart benefits. |
